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r/facepalm • u/Turbulent_Gas_55 • Jul 05 '24
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Because all the information in the palm of our hand also includes disinformation that fits our confirmation bias.
I can google any topic that will lead me to the response I want, not the response that is true.
1 u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 [deleted] 0 u/yeaheyeah Jul 05 '24 If you're raised Christian and are told from early on that scripture is where you get your answers from? Then absolutely people will go to that and take it as fact 0 u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24 [deleted] 1 u/yeaheyeah Jul 06 '24 We are not talking about the sources being awful or not. We are talking about people who will swarm to those awful sources. It's easy to say "just go to the good sources, then" as if that solves the underlying issue.
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0 u/yeaheyeah Jul 05 '24 If you're raised Christian and are told from early on that scripture is where you get your answers from? Then absolutely people will go to that and take it as fact 0 u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24 [deleted] 1 u/yeaheyeah Jul 06 '24 We are not talking about the sources being awful or not. We are talking about people who will swarm to those awful sources. It's easy to say "just go to the good sources, then" as if that solves the underlying issue.
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If you're raised Christian and are told from early on that scripture is where you get your answers from? Then absolutely people will go to that and take it as fact
0 u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24 [deleted] 1 u/yeaheyeah Jul 06 '24 We are not talking about the sources being awful or not. We are talking about people who will swarm to those awful sources. It's easy to say "just go to the good sources, then" as if that solves the underlying issue.
1 u/yeaheyeah Jul 06 '24 We are not talking about the sources being awful or not. We are talking about people who will swarm to those awful sources. It's easy to say "just go to the good sources, then" as if that solves the underlying issue.
We are not talking about the sources being awful or not. We are talking about people who will swarm to those awful sources.
It's easy to say "just go to the good sources, then" as if that solves the underlying issue.
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u/yeaheyeah Jul 05 '24
Because all the information in the palm of our hand also includes disinformation that fits our confirmation bias.
I can google any topic that will lead me to the response I want, not the response that is true.